Word: gawked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only feasible action was to write off the entire weekend and gawk at the tourists, visiting college students and wistful alums. And listen--to the hi-fi din of dining-hall parties, to the crunch of empty beer cans against foreheads, and to roommate talk...
Their annual spawning is a sight so bizarre that it draws voyeurs from distant lands to the sandy shores some twelve miles northwest of Cape May, N.J. Lugging cameras, British journalists fly here to film the fecund scene. Japanese scientists gawk at the colossal display of concupiscence. American entrepreneurs profit from it. Biologists study it, and schoolchildren puzzle over it. Oblivious, the crabs just do their primal thing...
Apparently oblivious to his predicament, the mayor tries to remain playful. As he strolls through his city, cars honk, supporters yell, tourists gawk. A car pulls to the curb and a woman shouts, "I see you're still throwing up bricks!" a reference to a game of hoops he played with Jesse Jackson for the TV cameras. He grins, turns back toward the car, bends his knees and launches a mock jumper. The form is bad, the follow-through is strained, but his fans cackle with glee...
...theater: Theda Bara sits in the box office; Mae West sells you candy; Mickey Rooney is the usher; a sarcophagus creaks open to reveal the late James Dean. In the theater auditorium, its walls a splurge of film-trivia graffiti, you can watch a silent-movie serial or just gawk at the delirious decor...
...their questions adroitly. His response that he had found the ocean voyage uninteresting eventually made its way into a headline: MR. WILDE DISAPPOINTED WITH THE ATLANTIC. And so it went across America for nearly ten months: Wilde preaching art-for-art's-sake to people who had come to gawk at his costumes...